After four hours of deliberation, a federal jury in Miami yesterday decided that a South Florida bank must pay $67 million to a group of 27 investors swindled by then-attorney…
A growing national labor and employment boutique is expanding into Massachusetts and Tennessee with the additions of well-known senior practitioners from other firms to its attorney roster.
The chief executive officer of a Silicon Valley legal powerhouse firm is stepping down and will be replaced by two senior partners working together to do the job.
Cash bribes totaling at least $1 million and call girls helped him pull off a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme, a disbarred Florida lawyer said during a 10-day deposition in a…
A former client has sued a Minnesota law firm for malpractice, alleging that a standard clause was left out of a $6.8 million sales contract for the Vinny T’s restaurant…
Disbarred attorney Scott Rothstein pointed the finger at two ex-partners of his bankrupt South Florida law firm during a deposition, the Associated Press and Dec 22, 2011 12:19 AM CST
A near-record verdict for Southern Peru Copper Co. in a Delaware shareholder derivative suit has resulted in a monster payday for the company’s counsel.
A New York judge has dismissed a mortgage foreclosure case, with prejudice, because of a well-known law firm’s delay in submitting to the court verifications that it took reasonable steps…
Perhaps it’s due to a perception by corporate clients that leading New York law firms, like Wall Street businesses, are raking in too much money in tough economic times.
Another New York law firm is moving in to fill in at least part of the upstate foreclosure practice gap left by the downfall of Steven J. Baum’s legal shop
Arnold & Porter will be adding 80 lawyers and a San Francisco office to its letterhead Jan. 1 with the acquisition of Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin.
Corrected: A “transformative” $24 million gift by a name partner of Bose McKinney & Evans has already achieved one major change at Indiana University’s law…
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